COMING SOON TO A GALLERY NEAR YOU (assuming you live in the San Fran area…)

This July 2nd, SpokeArt will be hosting artist Tim Doyle in his 4th annual UnReal Estate exhibition there! Featuring 10 new silkscreen prints of Pop-Culture locations- while past years have focused exclusively on Television shows- this year is all cinema! The artist will be in attendance.

All prints and variants and original line-art will be available the night of the show, and remaining prints will be on the SpokeArt website shortly afterwards.

NOTE– there will be a special ‘collectors preview’ email sent out for those who want to pre-purchase the entire set of prints, as well as original art. The full print sets will contain some exclusive variants only available in the set. Email SpokeArt directly at spokeartgallery@gmail.com and request to be on this list! (Only 50 full sets will be available, and they have sold out every year).

It’s been 6 months since the last Nakatomi-Wide MYSTERY TUBE SALE, and it’s time to once again tempt fate, cast caution to the wind, and DIVE BACK IN FOR THE CRAZY!

We have good number of tubes this time around- not as many as last time, but definitely a lot to go around- NOTE– we’ve never NOT sold out of a Tube Sale- so be ready!

Tubes are $50 each– Each tube will have 5 prints in it-all suitable for framing. Some are considered ‘scratch/dent’ in that there’s minor printing flaws or a ‘soft’ corner, but nothing that won’t frame out.

The quick and dirty is this- you’ll get 5 random prints from Nakatomi artists past and present, and a shot at some really great bonus prints for $50

So, what’s in the pool of awesome that you’ll have a shot at getting this time out?

MYSTERY 12×24 PRINT.

We will have a print in Doyle’s 12×24 print series that will never be available on Nakatomi any other way!

Every tube ordered will get one. (There will also be a randomly inserted variant for this print…)

You are welcome to buy as many tubes as you want- you will receive a copy of one of the exclusive print in each tube. Only one tube per order– we cannot combine shipping- as we can only fit 5 prints in each tube!

TEST SHEETS!

AND MORE!

We’re randomly inserting a totally awesome and unique test-sheet with orders! A test sheet is like 4 prints flying at your eyes at ONCE! Truly a byproduct of the Silk-screen process, we run screens on scrap paper as we’re working on a project, and what you get is a random collage of color building up on a sheet of paper, until we judge that it’s ‘done’ and throw it on our stack of completed sheets! There’s an awful lot of the upcoming UnReal Estate 4 screens that are in this crop, that made crazy fun images. Becky Cloonan’s recent print release with us made some really great, striking prints of the lead character’s upside-down face! I really dig those Batman test prints!

FYI- no tube will have more than ONE test sheet in it, if at all!

ORIGINAL ART!

9 original drawings and paintings from artist Tim Doyle! Used in the production of gigposters and art prints, these original pen and ink (and some watercolor) images hand-drawn on Bristol Board!

VERY SPECIAL ‘GOLDEN TICKET’

There will be EXACTLY ONE of these- a golden ticket. And if you receive this golden ticket, artist Tim Doyle will paint for you a 12×16 watercolor portrait of a movie/ tv character your choice in his SHINY OBJECTS series. You’ll receive the original painting! You can see the other paintings in this sold-out series HERE.

If you get the ticket, give us a few weeks to get the art to you, eh?

SUPER BONUS TIME PRINTS-

Artist Alexander Iaccarino had us print this recent 24×36 GotG print for him, and hooked us up with one of his AP copies from the run! This is from a TINY artist edition of only 10 copies! Only one of these AP copies have sold on the open market, and it topped $500- and we’re just giving it away to one lucky customer!

Stout’s Empire Strikes Back print! We picked this puppy up from an ex-Mondo employee, and again- JUST GIVING IT AWAY.

Aftermarket value on this baby tops out at over $800…don’t say I didn’t ever give you guys nothing!

Also- did we mention- the corners…THEY ARE SHARP!

With all this awesome, your odds of striking gold are PRETTY DANG GOOD. Please note- these tubes will be blind-packed, and we have no idea what prints are in what tubes!

5 prints, $50- you can knock off gifts for 5 people all at once, letting you cruise into birthday/holiday/apocalypse season with no worries!

Get your clicky fingers ready- we’ve never had a Nakatomi tube sale NOT sell out- we’re may start a little early or late with the drop time, as we’ve had massive server issues during these high-demand drops before, and we’re trying to cut down on that. But as always- it’s going to be a slog getting through check-out once word spreads that these are up for sale. Trust us- we’ll do what we can, but it’s rarely enough.

Note- we may put some of these tubes up for sale on our eBay store page with a buy it now price of $50 to help lighten the load on our servers- keep an eye on our TWITTER account HERE for links and info at drop time.

Thank you all, and see you on TUESDAY!

DELIVERY/ SHIPPING NOTE- because the Mystery Doyle print is going to be produced AFTER this sale goes live, please give us 2 weeks to start shipping these. Thank you.

Artist/ Nakatomi founder, Tim Doyle was commissioned to produce this dark interpretation of a classic Batman Cover for the fine folks over at French Paper Art Club!

From Doyle-

“I was the first artist to be a part of FPC’s Batman print series, and was totally excited to be back on for a new print- this time, the assignment was doing my own version of an existing cover. FPC had access to the almost complete back catalog of classic covers to do re-interpretations of, and the minute they asked me I knew EXACTLY the one I wanted to do. Detective #31 has a LONG history of fantastic artists doing reinterpretations of, and I wanted to take my own spin on it. The original line-art for this piece was actually a watercolor painting I had done, and adapted for screenprinting- the same technique I used for the sold-out Batman/GCPD print I had done for them last year. I wanted to use the same BRIGHT colors from the original cover, but find a way to make it much darker in tone. As always, super-big thanks to French Paper Art Club for the great gig!”

This hand-printed silkscreen art print measures 18×24, and is signed and numbered by the artist.